Legal Opinion
Stserba v. Holder
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided May 20, 2011No. 09-4312PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KAREN NELSON MOORE, Circuit Judge.
Lilia Stserba and her son, Anton, are Estonian citizens who are ethnically Russian. Stserba’s husband, Igor Anatolievich Pabo, is a Russian citizen. All three petitioners came to the United States legally and sought asylum and withholding of removal. They alleged past persecution on account of their Russian ethnicity and fear of future persecution. The alleged persecution centers around four issues: (1) revocation of Stserba’s Estonian citizenship after Estonia regained indepen dence from the USSR; (2) Estonia’s invalidation of Russian medical degrees…
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